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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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